First UK birth following womb transplant

For the first time in the UK, a woman has given birth following a womb transplant. New mother Grace and father Angus have named their baby Amy Isabel after her sister Amy, who donated her womb, and Miss Isabel Quiroga, who co-led the transplant operation. Grace and baby girl Amy are both doing very well following a caesarean section birth at Queen Charlotte’s and Chelsea Hospital in London in February 2025. 

This joyful moment follows over 25 years of pioneering research and innovation by a collaborative team of UK experts led by Professor Richard Smith, a consultant gynaecological surgeon, and also for over a decade by Miss Isabel Quiroga, a consultant transplant and endocrine surgeon.

Grace, who is 36 and lives in the south of England, was born without a functioning womb which meant she was unable to carry and give birth to her own baby. This changed in early 2023 when she became the first woman to receive a womb transplant in the UK, after her sister Amy donated her own womb as part of the Womb Transplant UK living donor programme. 

The programme is funded by the charity Womb Transplant UK and will include five transplant operations, with approval from the Human Tissue Authority. 

Nicolette Harrison, Director of Regulation at the Human Tissue Authority said: “This is wonderful news for the family. The Human Tissue Authority’s role in the regulation of living donations is to check that consent is in place and there is no duress, coercion or reward. In 2024 we approved 1105 cases of living organ donation, with each one helping to save and improve lives in the UK.”

Read the full press release here.

Find out more about living organ donation here.

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